AI DEBATE : Yoshua Bengio | Gary Marcus

Montréal.AI’s first AI Debate, December 2019: the deep-learning laureate and his most persistent critic on one stage, arguing whether big data and deep learning alone can reach general intelligence. What makes it a classic is not the clash but the concessions — both want causality, both want System 2 reasoning, both admit current networks generalize poorly. They differ on one seam: must symbol manipulation be built in, or can it be learned? Six years of scaling arguments later, that seam has not closed.